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ID: 700009361
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009361
Record Type: Conceptual
Images: 1
Man on the Rack, The (etching (print); Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian printmaker, architect, 1...; 1749-1750)
Note: Plate added to the 2nd edition, plate 2 of 2nd edition 2nd issue and all subsequent issues
Titles:
Man on the Rack, The (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)
Catalog Level: multiples
Work Types:
etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

Classifications:
prints (preferred)

Creation Date: 1749-1750

Creator Display:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian printmaker, architect, 1720-1778) [preferred]
printmaker Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (Italian printmaker, architect, 1720-1778) [500114965]
Locations:
Not Applicable:
Display Materials: etching, engraving; ink on paper
etching (printing process) [300053241]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)
engraving (printing process) [300053225]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)
ink [300015012]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)
paper (fiber product) [300014109]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: plate: 571 x 420
General Subject:
architecture (preferred,description)

Specific Subjects:
man (Homo sapiens species) [300265711]
.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Primates (order), Hominoidea (superfamily), Hominidae (family), Homo (genus)) (AAT)
rack (corporal punishment equipment) [300391487]
.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by context>, <equipment for corporal punishment>) (AAT)
prisons (buildings) [300006460]
.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, institutional buildings, correctional institutions (buildings)) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Signed bottom right margin in state 2
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Conceptual Works
.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works
............... Carceri d'Invenzione
Sources and Contributors:
Man on the Rack, The........ [VP]
........ Robison, Piranesi: the early architectural fantasies: a guide to the exhibition (1978)
Subject: ....... [VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Robison, Piranesi: the early architectural fantasies: a guide to the exhibition (1978) 207 ff.
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